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With social media, now an inseparable part of the marketing expenditures for every modern organization, cybercriminals quickly adapted to the ongoing buzz, and over the last couple of years, have been persistently supplying…read more

In a series of blog posts, we’ve highlighted the ongoing commoditization of hacked/compromised/stolen account data (user names and passwords), the direct result of today’s efficiency-oriented cybercrime ecosystem, the increasing availability of sophisticated commercial/leaked DIY…read more

By Dancho Danchev Opportunistic pharmaceutical scammers are currently spamvertising tens of thousands of bogus emails impersonating Facebook’s Notification System in an attempt to trick users into clicking on the links, supposedly coming from a…read more

Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising two separate campaigns, impersonating Facebook Inc., in an attempt to trick its users into thinking that their Facebook account has been disabled. What these two campaigns have in common is…read more

In December, 2012, we intercepted a professional-looking email that was impersonating Facebook Inc. in an attempt to trick its users into thinking that they’ve received an “Account Cancellation Request“. In reality, once users clicked on…read more

Cybercriminals have recently launched a privacy-violating campaign spreading across Facebook in an attempt to trick Facebook’s users into installing a rogue Chrome extension. Once installed, it will have access to all the data…read more

Facebook users, watch what you click on! Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing bogus “Facebook Account Cancellation Requests“, in an attempt to trick Facebook’s users into clicking on the malicious link found in the…read more

Facebook users, watch out! A recently launched malicious spam campaign is impersonating Facebook, Inc. in an attempt to trick its one billion users into thinking that they’ve received a notification alerting them on…read more

Recently, cybercriminals spamvertised yet another massive email campaign, impersonating the world’s most popular social network – Facebook. It was similar to a previously profiled spam campaign imitating Facebook. However, in this case the cybercriminals…read more